The Host Shed’s Acceptable Use Policy (the “Policy”) for The Host Shed is designed to help protect The Host Shed, The Host Shed’s customers, and the Internet community in general from irresponsible or, in some cases, illegal activities. The Policy, including the following list of prohibited activities, is an integral part of your Hosting Agreement with The Host Shed. If you engage in any of the activities prohibited by the Policy, The Host Shed reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account.

The Policy includes a non-exclusive list of the actions prohibited by The Host Shed and we reserve the right to modify the Policy at any time, effective upon posting at https://thehostshed.com/acceptable-usage-policy.

Prohibited Uses of The Host Shed Systems and Services:​

Transmission, distribution or storage of any material in violation of any applicable law or regulation is prohibited. This includes without limitation, material protected by copyright, trademark, trade secret or intellectual property right used without proper authorization, and material that is obscene, defamatory, constitutes an illegal threat, or violates export control laws.

Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:

• Drug dealing
• Piracy/Pirating
• Violation of copyright law
• Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
• Illegal arms trafficking
• Stalking or violating state or federal law
• Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
• Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
• Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
• Violating U.S. and international export restrictions
• Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service
• Activities related to Chia mining

The Host Shed does not actively monitor dedicated server content for review. The Host Shed believes in the free dissemination of information via our services and dedicated server content will only be reviewed upon complaint by a verified third party. Content that does not violate local, state and federal law or the AUP is deemed in compliance and shall remain intact. Legal adult content is allowed on The Host Shed’s dedicated servers.

• Sending Unsolicited Bulk Email. The sending of any form of Unsolicited Bulk Email (“UBE”, “spam”) through TheHostShed’s servers is prohibited. Likewise, the sending of UBE from another service provider advertising a web site, email address or utilizing any resource hosted on The Host Shed’s servers, is prohibited. The Host Shed accounts or services may not be used to solicit customers from, or collect replies to, messages sent from another Internet Service Provider where those messages violate this Policy or that of the other provider. ANY form of spamming activity (e.g. mail spam, Usenet spam, pop-up spam, selling/buying spamware, etc.) conducted ANYWHERE on the Internet (i.e. whether through our facilities or not), will be:
• Grounds for instant, permanent termination of all services with no prior warning;
• Grounds for forfeit of all funds paid;
• Will result in a demand for payment of a fine in the amount of $500 for each incident, which must be paid within twenty-four (24) hours or it will be referred to a collection agency
• Running Unconfirmed Mailing Lists. Subscribing email addresses to any mailing list without the express and verifiable permission of the email address owner is prohibited. All mailing lists run by The Hos Shed customers must be closed loop (“confirmed opt-in”). The subscription confirmation message received from each address owner must be kept on file for the duration of the existence of the mailing list. Purchase lists of email addresses from third parties for mailing to and/or from any The Host Shed hosted domain, or referencing any The Host Shed account, is prohibited.
• Advertising, transmitting, or otherwise making available any software, program, product, or service that is designed to violate this AUBP or the AUP of any other Internet Service Provider, which includes, but is not limited to, the facilitation of the means to send Unsolicited Bulk Email, initiation of pinging, flooding, mail-bombing, denial of service attacks
• Operating an account on behalf of, or in connection with, or reselling any service to, persons or firms listed in the Spamhaus Register of Known Spam Operations (ROKSO) database at www.spamhaus.org/rokso
• Unauthorized attempts by a user to gain access to any account or computer resource not belonging to that user (e.g., “cracking”). TheHostShed reserves the right to report illegal activities to any and all regulatory, administrative, and/or governmental authorities for prosecution. If you have any question regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact Hivelocity at abuse@thehostshed.com.
• Obtaining or attempting to obtain service by any means or device with intent to avoid payment
• Unauthorized access, alteration, destruction, or any attempt thereof, of any information of any The Host Shed customers or end-users by any means or device
• Knowingly engaging in any activities designed to harass, or that will cause a denial-of-service (e.g., synchronized number sequence attacks) to any other user whether on the The Host Shed network or on another provider’s network
• Using The Host Shed’s Services to interfere with the use of the The Host Shed network by other customers or authorized users
• Server Resources (This applies to shared hosting plans only.): Running programs in the background on a The Host Shed’s shared server without prior written authorization, or running chat rooms, Internet Relay Chat (IRC) or IRC Bots, more than one thousand (1,000) emails a day and the like are not acceptable uses of The Host Shed’s shared servers. Further, any usage of fifteen percent (15%) or greater of our system resources is an undue burden on our shared systems and is regarded as unacceptable. If your usage ever exceeds fifteen percent (15%) of shared system resources, your account may be terminated immediately and without prior notice. In addition, any domain that exceeds ten (10) gigabytes of bandwidth in a short span can be terminated without prior notice. Usage of scripts or other utilities to direct pointed domain names to subdirectories is not permitted and is grounds for termination of the account. TheHostShed’s shared services may be used for lawful purposes only.

Unacceptable practices include but are not limited to the following:

• Drug dealing
• Piracy/Pirating
• Violation of copyright law
• Illegal gambling/Lottery sites
• Illegal arms trafficking
• Stalking or violating state or federal law
• Attempting without authorization to access a computer system
• Schemes to defraud, sending a message or having content that is indecent according to American laws with intent to annoy, abuse, threaten, or harass another person
• Threatening bodily harm or damage to individual(s) or group(s)
• Violating U.S. and international export restrictions
• Interfere with or disrupt the Services or servers or networks connected to the Services, or disobey any requirements, procedures, policies or regulations of networks connected to the Service
• Activities related to Chia mining

Customer Responsibility for Customer’s Users

Each The Host Shed customer is responsible for the activities of its users and, by accepting service from The Host Shed, is agreeing to ensure that its customers/representatives or end-users abide by this Policy. Complaints about customers/representatives or end-users of a The Host Shed customer will be forwarded to the The Host Shed customer’s postmaster for action. If violations of the The Host Shed’s Acceptable Use Policy occur, The Host Shed reserves the right to terminate services with or take action to stop the offending customer from violating The Host Shed’s AUP as The Host Shed deems appropriate, without notice.

Refusal of Service

We reserve the right to refuse, cancel or suspend service at our sole discretion. All sub-networks, distributive hosting sites and dedicated servers of The Host Shed must adhere to the above policies. Failure to follow any term or condition will be grounds for immediate account deactivation without refund. If you have any questions regarding this abuse policy please feel free to contact The Host Shed at abuse@thehostshed.com.